Loosening Corsets:  The Heroic Life of Georgia’s Feisty Mrs. Felton, First Woman Senator of the United States. By A. Louise Staman.

Original photos, indexed, endnotes, hardback, 266 pages; ISBN 0-9787263-1-6

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Although the book is nonfiction, the life of Rebecca Latimer Felton reads like a novel, revealing the nearly forgotten story of one of the most remarkable woman in history.  A Georgian born before the Civil War, Felton became the first woman Senator of the United States in 1922, at age 87.  A tireless crusader, her attempts at political and civil reform are set against the backdrop of a state in violent chaos.  Sherman’s matches, Reconstruction’s graft, one-party corruption, the KKK, lynchers, hallelujah evangelicals, chain-gang convicts, the sneering H.L. Mencken, “unsexed” suffragists, WCTU crusaders, and something possibly worse than anything else – a tiny insect called the boll weevil – all strut or crawl or sweep across the pages of this work.